As much as I admire organizations which promote interfaith relations, my problem is when the religious texts of different faiths are literally combative towards other beliefs. No, it’s not just an Islam thing.
It’s really the responsibility of religious academics to start putting ancient texts in a context which is more conducive towards improved interfaith relations and overall societal stability. Otherwise, religions need to get out of politics and policy making, and just stay a personal matter (as they always should have been).
Religious texts could explicitly tell people to be nice, people would still be assholes to each other. This is because the problem is people. Maybe people should ‘get out of politics and policy making’, because (for some reason) they have decided that hatred of the other is an acceptable political position, and a platform upon which candidates and parties can win.
As much as I admire organizations which promote interfaith relations, my problem is when the religious texts of different faiths are literally combative towards other beliefs. No, it’s not just an Islam thing.
It’s really the responsibility of religious academics to start putting ancient texts in a context which is more conducive towards improved interfaith relations and overall societal stability. Otherwise, religions need to get out of politics and policy making, and just stay a personal matter (as they always should have been).
Religious texts could explicitly tell people to be nice, people would still be assholes to each other. This is because the problem is people. Maybe people should ‘get out of politics and policy making’, because (for some reason) they have decided that hatred of the other is an acceptable political position, and a platform upon which candidates and parties can win.